Long Illuminates Poems
Long Illuminates Poems. Below are the most popular long Illuminates by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Illuminates poems by poem length and keyword.
Be of Good, Compassionate CourageDandelions…
They flutter, now I see
Fiery lions…
They're dancing with me
Sunlight…
Come out and shine down
Moonlight…
Shun out my darkened frown
I am the infinitesimal stars in the tranquil, terrestrial night
I am the scars minutes before the sunlit dawn...
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Categories:
illuminates, confidence, courage, encouraging, endurance, hope, muse, passion,
Form:
Free verse
An Adverse World Uncurled“I am NOT like my father!!!
You say that again, I’m going to kill you!”
I shrivel up in shame
For, I am not to blame
For the shenanigans you put me through so many times
Sometimes, I wish I...
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Categories:
illuminates, addiction, anger, angst,
Form:
Free verse
Various Heresies 3Various Heresies 3
Breakings
by Michael R. Burch
I did it out of pity.
I did it out of love.
I did it not to break the heart of a tender, wounded dove.
But gods without compassion
ordained: Frail things must break!
Now...
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Categories:
illuminates, america, bible, christian, god, jesus, religion, usa,
Form:
Verse
Poems About Adam, Eve, Lucifer, Eden and the FallPoems about Adam, Eve, Lucifer
Eden
by Michael R. Burch
Then earth was heaven too, a perfect garden.
Apples burgeoned and shone, unplucked on sagging boughs.
What, then, would the children eat?
Fruit indecently sweet,
redolent as incense, with a tempting aroma...
Outcasts
by...
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Categories:
illuminates, bible, christian, creation, god, heaven, paradise, sin,
Form:
Free verse
Apocalyptic Poems IiThese are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
Beast 666
by Michael R. Burch
“... what rough beast ... slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”?W. B. Yeats
Brutality is a cross
wooden, blood-stained,
gas hissing, sibilant,
lungs gilled, deveined,
red flecks on a...
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Categories:
illuminates, earth, earth day, environment, future, visionary, weather,
Form:
Rhyme
Come Down, For Harold BloomCome Down
by Michael R. Burch
for Harold Bloom
Come down, O, come down
from your high mountain tower.
How coldly the wind blows,
how late this chill hour ...
and I cannot wait
for a meteor shower
to show you the time
must be...
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Categories:
illuminates, books, culture, discrimination, education, extended metaphor, literature,
Form:
Sonnet
What Good Are Our TearsWhat Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch
What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm benevolence...
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Categories:
illuminates, child, child abuse, children, death, poverty, sick,
Form:
Free verse
Yosa Buson TranslationsYosa Buson haiku translations
On the temple’s great bronze gong
a butterfly
snoozes.
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Hard to describe:
this light sensation of being pinched
by a butterfly!
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Not to worry...
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Categories:
illuminates, age, animal, autumn, father, moon, mother, nature,
Form:
Haiku
Starlight and Moonlight IiStarlight and Moonlight II
These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …
Deliver Us...
by Michael R. Burch
for my mother, Christine Ena Burch
The night is dark and scary—
under...
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Categories:
illuminates, dream, love, moon, night, sky, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Amberina BallerinaA born lioness my untamed heart? ha!
a mouse, this pulsing token ruled by unruly wants
at times given, traded or stolen - sometimes
thrown down on a dare to be won or lost
till it became...
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Categories:
illuminates, destiny, emotions, inspiration, introspection, memory, metaphor, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
In the silky night, dotted with mysteryIn the silky night, dotted with mystery,
Where the moon's thread weaves shadows on the paths,
The heart, a thin garment, a flash in the ether,
Listens as the time from the hourglass seeps away,
And its rhythm, a...
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Categories:
illuminates, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Gingham Prison: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road
(A call for the lights to dim as a single spotlight illuminates the legend Judy Garland, who is center stage. She wears a faded housecoat as her beautiful, brandy brown eyes hold a lifetime of...
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Categories:
illuminates, addiction, anxiety, depression, loneliness, lonely, psychological, woman,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Moonlight Sonatas and Morning KissesIn the realm of moons and breathless tides,
where promises dance with a serendipitous sonnet of sunrises,
along with morning kisses, unfolds a love story—
a poetic novel etched in the chronicles
within the hourglass of time,
a journey that...
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Categories:
illuminates, best friend, blessing, devotion, inspirational love, love,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Think Twice***Part 1 of the series, Not Focused (written entirely by J.W. Earnings)***
Resurrect my hushed, pleading voice from the dead
Give me Your water and nourish me with serenity
Renew my rejoicing spirits, wholesome like bread
Wandering...
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Categories:
illuminates, angst, betrayal, confidence, conflict, courage, emotions, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Poverty, Angst and Anxiety DxIn the mirror, I see my face melt away in shame
And, yet I still hunt for game…feeling this shame without a well-thought-out
name
I hunt you down to catch some inspiration
I’m not looking for fame…I want...
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Categories:
illuminates, angst, beauty, betrayal, change, hope, how i
Form:
Free verse
BelovedMy name, David, means beloved in Hebrew - the daytime is shining amongst my windowpane as I write this poem, not in vain, but with pain that soon goes down the drain...my mind is on...
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Categories:
illuminates, angst, dedication, encouraging,
Form:
Free verse
Your Outlandish Maze and My Time of Anguish and CheerIn the mirror, I see my face melt away in shame
And, yet I still hunt for game…feeling this shame without a well-thought-out name
I hunt you down to catch some inspiration
I’m not looking for fame…I want...
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Categories:
illuminates, absence, angst, betrayal, conflict, confusion, deep, hope,
Form:
Free verse
KismatOver yonder pastoral realms, with heaving mounds of green
Birds of variegated colors shine, where.streamlets gleam with opal sheen.
In circles round, fleetfooted Zephyr sweeps the laurelled ground
With footfalls that loom, a sweet scented voluptuous sound
Which gently strike...
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Categories:
illuminates, beautiful, encouraging,
Form:
Verse
Destruction, As Kali Walks Upon Earthen GroundsDestruction, As Kali Walks Upon Earthen Grounds
Goddess of Destruction that teams with the Lord of Lusts
As wrathful winds bequeath savage ravaging gusts
Hades match, that has destroyed many a soul
World and darkness combine to...
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Categories:
illuminates, art, conflict, creation, dark, death, evil, humanity,
Form:
Rhyme
What Day Brings - Poem En DuoGood Morning!
When the day sweeps
Away the last drop of darkness, ?
(Aurora with her cool breath, ?
Gently rising to her duties, ?
And with the sun as her companion, ?
Drizzling light into dark corners), ?
It reminds...
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Categories:
illuminates, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Soul Searching
He finds me quietly inviting the light
To fall over my dreams, my prayers, the silence
Surrounding me with blankets of memories,
Lifting my thoughts from their wistful reveries,
Delicious darkness, so delicate, tempting me to see
Life is sometimes...
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Categories:
illuminates, appreciation, blessing, christian, encouraging, god, relationship, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Sometimes, perhaps often when we are youngSometimes, perhaps often when we are young,
we fall in love without knowing or having experienced real love...
that's how we learn... painful at times... happy for a while... but as we grow, we learn.
And when it...
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Categories:
illuminates, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Forgiving the Unforgivable(Lights dim, single spotlight illuminates the speaker, dressed in simple attire. Voice starts trembling, building in intensity)
Can forgiveness mend
a childhood, mine
fractured in the dark?
Where the scars are a map, inked
not just in...
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Categories:
illuminates, child abuse, father son, forgiveness, psychological,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Inner StrengthInner Strength
I gave up on me and never gave up on you. In the dimmest light, chance illuminates the real desire to fight. I could never feel justified or right, to take a stance...
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Categories:
illuminates, appreciation, emotions, forgiveness, introspection, spoken word, truth,
Form:
Curtal Sonnet
Love is a catastrophe, a bittersweet madness, a wild affliction that invades your soulLove is a catastrophe, a bittersweet madness, a wild affliction that invades your soul,
Disturbs your peace, devastates your routine, transforming you into a shadow of what you once were,
Each moment under its spell an odyssey...
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Categories:
illuminates, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse